Duane Sheriff Quotes

Sheriff Gideon Johann of Last Stand, Colorado and his part–time deputy, Zack Barlow, were finishing a breakfast of salt pork and hardtack after their first night on the trail. They were traveling west towards Silverton after Gideon had received a telegram from that town’s sheriff requesting help with a gang of outlaws headed towards Last Stand. The thieves had robbed the mine’s pay wagon, killing two men in the process. The

God’s Word in our hearts empowers us against sin—Wow! How cool is that?

My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you….

Jesus Christ never changed His strategy. He consistently demonstrated how to overcome the snare of the enemy. Every time He was assaulted, He simply responded with the Word of God: “For it is written… It is written... It is written.” This is how we overcome all trouble. We must be deeply rooted and grounded in the Word of God, always being prepared to give an answer to anyone—including the devil—of the hope that’s in us.

Discovering and fulfilling your purpose is vital to leading a fruitful life full of happiness and joy. When you know that you’re on the pathway of God’s purpose, all of life is good. Contrary to that, when you’re not on that path, nothing in life seems to be good. What I want you to see in all this is that developing and walking in the purpose of God is really more about the journey than about the destination. We will all eventually come to the unity of the faith. For now, we are all most definitely a work in progress, but we can still enjoy the discovery of our future and the recovery of our new identity in Jesus.

Jesus didn’t die for us to just add some good stuff to our time on the earth. He didn’t die just to improve us. No, Jesus brought a whole new kind of life, and He is the source of that life.

For instance, it is common knowledge that many men get depressed when they lose a job. They spiral downward in defeat and often become secretly hopeless because they thought of that job as something that defined them. Without it, they feel like nothing.